I’m not really all that familiar with comic book culture.

It's the economics, that's why opera is not dying but gets more and more difficult to put on.

I’m not really all that familiar with comic book culture.

By looking into more details of American history, we can make more sense of what's happening today.

There's the beauty of the stage. I don't like filmed theater or opera because you're kind of playing soccer in a hockey game. Either or, they don't do justice to the media and you end up with a hybrid that is purely sensationalistic. Opera is a very theatrical medium that should be seen on a stage with the musicians in the pit in the audience.

I'm open to working anywhere, but not on anything.

You can't always do the extraordinary, in between you have to do the ordinary. Because if you didn't, what would constitute the extraordinary?